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First Around-the-World Commercial Aircraft...
First Around-the-World Commercial Aircraft...
Item # 662904
January 07, 1942
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, January 7, 1942
* Pacific Clipper - Boeing 314 flying boat
* 1st commercial aircraft to circle the World
* Pan American World Airways'
The front page has a two column heading: "Clipper Ends Epoch-Making, 31,000-Mile Flight From war" (see)
Complete with all 24 pages, light toning at the margins, small library stamp within the masthead, small address label on the front page, small archival mend along the right margin, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: The Pacific Clipper (civil registration NC18602) was a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat famous for having completed Pan American World Airways' first around the world flight. The flight of the then-named California Clipper began December 2, 1941 at the Pan Am base on Treasure Island, California for its scheduled passenger service to Auckland, New Zealand. Renamed the Pacific Clipper, it landed at Pan American's LaGuardia Field seaplane base at 7:12 on the morning of January 6, 1942.
Category: The 20th Century
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